20th Century: 1900-Present
Introduction to recent compositional work from Essentials of Music. Linked to details on historical themes, musical context, style, and living or recently deceased composer biographies.
The Modern Era (1900 - 1945)
The Conservatory at Humanities Web outlines the rise of post-romantic music, rhythmic, harmonic, and tonal experimentation, and lists major composers with biographies, suggested reading, and additional resources.
List of 20th Century Classical Composers
Wikipedia entry linked to individual biographical articles plus internal references and external links.
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